News articles tagged with 'bird'
Funny, you don't look related
— 15 Nov 2009 16:06 | BiologyWhen Charles Darwin visited the Falkland Islands during the voyage of the Beagle in 1835, he saw a wolf-like species, wrote about it in his diaries and correctly commented that it was... — full story
UC Davis researchers identify dominant chemical that attracts mosquitoes to humans
— 28 Oct 2009 13:10 | HealthScientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified the dominant odour naturally produced in humans and birds that attracts the blood-feeding Culex mosquitoes, which... — full story
First evidence for a second breeding season among migratory songbirds
— 28 Oct 2009 11:48 | BiologyBiologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in... — full story
Dining out in an ocean of plastic: How foraging albatrosses put plastic on the menu
— 28 Oct 2009 11:02 | EnvironmentThe North Pacific Ocean is now commonly referred to as the world's largest garbage dump with an area the size of the continental United States covered in plastic debris. The highly... — full story
Are US and European plovers really birds of a feather?
— 23 Oct 2009 11:41 | BiologyThe Kentish-Snowy Plover, a small shorebird found in the US and Europe, is suffering from an identity crisis after scientists at the Universities of Bath and Sheffield found genetic... — full story
It takes 2 to tutor a sparrow
— 21 Oct 2009 09:41 | BiologyIt may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing... — full story
Migratory route of Eleonora's falcon revealed for first time
— 18 Oct 2009 12:03 | BiologySatellite tracking has allowed a research team to uncover the mysteries of the migration of Eleanora's falcon for the first time. In total, the bird flies more than 9,500 kilometres... — full story
Long feared extinct, rare bird rediscovered
— 14 Oct 2009 12:22 | BiologyKnown to science only by two specimens described in 1900, a critically endangered crow has re-emerged on a remote, mountainous Indonesian island thanks in part to a Michigan State University... — full story
Archaeopteryx was not very bird-like
— 10 Oct 2009 09:43 | Geology and palaeontologyNew research published this week clips the wings of Archaeopteryx. First found in Germany in the 1860's and dating to 150 million years ago, Archaeopteryx has long been considered the... — full story
Loyal alligators display the mating habits of birds
— 9 Oct 2009 10:18 | BiologyAlligators display the same loyalty to their mating partners as birds reveals a study published today in Molecular Ecology. The ten-year-study by scientists from the Savannah River... — full story